Naidu will do a Jayalalitha on Vajpayee: Mayawati

Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati today said
that the success of the Samajwadi Party in the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar
Pradesh was largely due to the support from Chief Minister Kalyan Singh
and a section of the media.

Addressing a press conference in Lucknow she said the SP had gained in the
state not due to the personal efforts of party chief Mulayam Singh
Yadav but due to the use of government machinery to help the SP candidates in various
constituencies.

''Had [Kalyan] Singh not supported the SP in the state, the latter would
have ended up at third position behind the Bharatiya Janata Party and
the Bahujan Samaj Party,'' Mayawati said.

There was clear evidence that Kalyan Singh had instructed his
officials to support the SP candidates instead of those
from the BJP, she added.

''I have definite information that Sakshi Maharaj, who had
resigned from the BJP after he was denied a ticket from the Farrukhabad
Lok Sabha seat and campaigned in the favour of SP candidates, had
full support from Kalyan Singh,'' she claimed. She added that ''even his
[Sakshi Maharaj's] tour arrangements were done at the behest of the chief minister
who provided him with a helicopter.''

The firebrand BSP leader also alleged that a section of press,
both print and electronic, had played a role in spreading mis-
information against her party.

Mayawati said the tacit understanding between Mulayam Singh
Yadav and Kalyan Singh was no more a secret and the losing BJP
candidates were now vocal about it. ''The issue is bound to be
raised by BJP leaders at the national level after installation of
its government at the Centre,'' she said.

She said that her party had raised its seat tally from four to 14
in the state and that too without the support of any other party or
leader. She alleged that in at least three constituencies, namely
Basti Res, Fatehpur and Misrikh (reserved), BSP candidates were
deliberately defeated by the district election officers even though
they were winning.

The BSP leader said her party would have won at least 20 seats
if the SP had not been provided support by the state
machinery.

Mayawati alleged that the media had played a role in spreading
false information about her party candidates withdrawing from the
electoral field specially in Amethi, Lucknow and Kanpur.

The BSP leader was of the opinion that Uttar Pradesh was heading
for assembly elections soon. She also believed that in the next assembly
election, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Kalyan Singh would be
together. In reply to a question, she said her party favoured early
assembly elections.

Casting doubts over the longevity of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led-
National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre,
Mayawati said what Jayalalitha had done to it last time, Chandrababu
Naidu will do this time. She said a party with 29 MPs supporting from outside
is bound to have a hidden agenda. ''Vajpayee may evolve many formulas but
the life of his government is not long,'' she said.